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The Cancer Center is the only academic-based cancer research and patient care group in Southeastern Wisconsin. It brings together more than 215 physicians and scientists from more than 34 disciplines. The Cancer Center has two major goals: Help cure cancer by transferring knowledge from the laboratory to the patients and qualify as a federally designated cancer center, which would help ensure patients' continued rapid access to new cancer treatments and improve the College's positioning for federal grants.
Cancer Center News regularly features cancer researchers and physicians recently appointed to the Medical College of Wisconsin faculty. This issue highlights Becky L. Massey, MD, who was recruited by the Department of Otolaryngology and Communication Sciences to continue building the department's strength in skull base surgery and head and neck oncology.
Cancer Center News regularly features cancer researchers and physicians recently appointed to The Medical College of Wisconsin faculty.
March 17 - A study at the Medical College of Wisconsin Center for Patient Care and Outcomes Research in Milwaukee revealed that about two-thirds of elderly breast cancer survivors underwent shared care in the first three years after treatment, and that they had higher mammography rates in all three years (84, 81, and 78.6 percent, respectively) than survivors who saw only a specialist or generalist (not both).